Yo Yo - Bourgeois Tagg

Originally released in 1988, this multi million selling album hasn't been available for well over 10 years and contains the worldwide hit "I don't mind at All". Brent Bourgeois and Larry Tagg specialized in Beatlesque pop in the style of their apparent mentor Todd Rundgeren, whom produced this album "YoYo" and the worldwide hit "I Don't Mind At All"
This album was originally released on Island records in 1987- their second and final release before splitting in the early 90s when Bourgeois and Tagg went on to record with bands such as REM, The Rembrandts, Duran Duran, Toad The Wet Sprocket and Til Tuesday! This is a collectable for every Rundgren fan and "I Don't Mind" is still regularly played on Capital Radio, Radio 2,Heart FM, and Magic FM - Yo Yo is one of the finest examples of 80s power pop!

Best of all possible worlds / Cry like a Baby / Pencil and Paper / Out of my Mind / 15 Minutes in the Sun / Waiting for the Worm to Turn / I Don't Mind at All / What's wrong with this Picture / Stress / Coma

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Redux 92: Live In Japan

Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of a deluxe cd & dvd set featuring a newly remastered edition of the classic 1993 live album Redux 92 by Utopia and the first ever European DVD release of the concert film of the same name.Following the release of the album Pov in 1985, Todd Rundgren, Kasim Sulton, Roger Powell & Willie Wilcox disbanded Utopia. Seven years later the group were coaxed out of mothballs to undertake a tour of Japan, during which the band recorded a live album at a concert in Tokyo on 10th may 1992. The concert was also captured by a video crew resulting in a live DVD release which accompanied the live album the following year. Despite a seven year hiatus, Utopia were in fine form.The album and DVD include fine renditions of classics such as the Ikon, Swing To The Right, Love In Action, Hiroshima, Caravan, One World, Fix Your Gaze and The Last Of The New Wave Riders.

Haysi Fantayzee were formed in 1981 by fashion photographer Kate Garner, former Animal Magnet member Paul Caplin and Jeremy Healy, a well-known face on London's club scene. Together they set about injecting a sense of fun and adventure into the music scene, wearing outlandish, selfdesigned costumes and dreadlocks, and writing songs that married sexual subversion with deliberately disposable and cocksure dayglo pop.

Their 'Dickensian Rasta' look was an immediate hit and saw their debut single 'John Wayne Is Big Leggy' rise to number 11 in the national charts. In their brief career they would also enjoy chart success with 'Holy Joe' and 'Shiny Shiny'. All three hits are reprised on this CD, as is their sole album, Battle Hymns For Children Singing.

The package also features a host of bonus tracks, remixes, and sleevenotes written with the co-operation of both Healy and Garner. The former went on to become one of the UK's most successful DJs, while the latter is an accomplished and in-demand photographer for artists including Sinead O'Connor, Bjork, David Bowie and others.

Furniture formed in Ealing, West London, 1979 by Jim Irvin, Tim Whelan and Hamilton Lee. They built up a strong following in and around London before bolstering their line up to include Sally Still and Maya Gilda.
They released several independent singles through Survival Records before signing to Stiff Records in 1986. Best know for their 1986 single ‘Brilliant Mind' which has since featured on many compilations over the years.
At the time of the ‘The Wrong People's' release Stiff Records went into liquidation with only having manufactured 30,000 vinyl copies and no CD. This vinyl has become a cult classic and very sought after over the years.
The band eventually called it a day in 1992 with the various members going on to other projects. Jim Irvin fronted a keyboard/voice duo called ‘Because' before turning his hand to journalism, currently writing for Mojo. Tim and Hami formed Transglobal Underground who still record and tour today.
This long overdue and debut CD release adds an additional nine bonus tracks. Pulling together b-sides and extended versions from their two singles off the album along with two unreleased demos from the bands own archive.

This 19 track album features the complete collection of The Maisonettes recordings. With their 60s soul influenced sound, The Maisonettes were originally signed to Birmingham indie label Ready Steady Go! and became household names in 1983 with their UK top 10 hit "Heartache Avenue”. With sleeve notes from Ready Steady Go! label founder David Virr and a very rare video of 'Heartache Avenue' as a CDROM enhanced track, this collection is a real treat!

Kippington Lodge released five excellent singles on Parlophone Records between 1967 and 1969, yet they remain one of the least known English pop groups of the late sixties.This despite boasting a line-up that included Nick Lowe as well as Brinsley Schwarz and Bob Andrews (future members of Graham Parker & The Rumour) who would all find fame and in Lowe s case, fortune for their musical exploits in the decades to follow.Kippington Lodge have been afforded so little recognition that with the exception of having their singles crudely tacked on to a Brinsley Schwarz compilation CD in 1998 their output has never been presented and evaluated in the proper context.The group - whose first two singles were produced by famed EMI producer Mark Wirtz , including their contemporary version of the Keith West penned Shy Boy, today a regular on 60 s radio programmes - was a true creature of the sixties.

PRESS:-

"Only lead
vocalist Schwartz himself features on the first two singles, the jaunty Shy Boy
and the impossibly catchy Rumours – both the handiwork of producer Mark Wirtz,
who also masterminded Keith West’s Top 10 hit Excerpt From A Teenage Opera.”